Barnes & Noble Announces a Book Season Like No Other: Strongest Book List in Years with Great Reads from Bestselling and Favorite Authors

Barnes & Noble Announces a Book Season Like No Other: Strongest Book List in Years with Great Reads from Bestselling and Favorite Authors

08:30 EDT Thursday, October 03, 2013

NEW YORK (Business Wire) -- Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS), one of the nation's
largest booksellers and the leading retailer of content, digital media
and educational products, today announced the list of must-have books
for the Fall and Holiday season, with Barnes & Noble booksellers across
the country calling this the most exciting Fall book season in years.
With new books from bestselling authors like John Grisham, Bill
O'Reilly, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Mitch Albom, Amy Tan and many more
coming this Fall, customers are already visiting their local Barnes &
Noble stores, BN.com and NOOK.com to purchase and pre-order the latest
print and digital titles from their favorite authors.

“This is the strongest Fall lineup of books for adults, kids and teens
in years and this amazing list makes it a book season like no other. We
are already seeing strong demand for new releases both in our stores and
online,” said Jaime Carey, Chief Merchandising Officer, Barnes & Noble.
“We are thrilled to offer our customers such a variety of great content
to discover, read and gift this Holiday season.”

Top adult, kids and teen picks from Barnes & Noble's booksellers for the
Fall and Holiday season include:

The Best of the Season for AdultsOn Sale Now

Someoneby Alice McDermott

W
Is for Wasted by Sue Grafton

The
Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks

Doctor
Sleepby Stephen King

Killing
Jesus: A Historyby Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard

The
Lowlandby Jhumpa Lahiri

Break
Out!: 5 Keys to Go Beyond Your Barriers and Live an Extraordinary Life
by Joel Osteen

David
and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
by Malcolm Gladwell

One
Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson

The
Signature of All Thingsby Elizabeth Gilbert

Coming in October

Storm
Front by John Sandford (Release date: October 8)

The
Circleby Dave Eggers (Release date: October 8)

Identical
by Scott Turow (Release date: October 15)

Police
by Jo Nesbo (Release date: October 15)

Sycamore
Rowby John Grisham (Release date: October 22)

The
Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (Release date: October 22)

We
Are Water: A Novel by Wally Lamb (Release date: October 22)

Accused
by Lisa Scottoline (Release date: October 29)

After
Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouseby
Charlaine Harris (Release date: October 29)

The
Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son by Pat
Conroy (Release date: October 29)

The
Pioneer Woman Cooks: A Year of Holidays: 140 Step-by-Step Recipes for
Simple, Scrumptious Celebrations by Ree Drummond (Release
date: October 29)

Stitches:
A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair by Anne Lamott (Release
date: October 29)

I
Even Funnier: A Middle School Story by James Patterson
(Release date: December 9)

Customers are invited to browse the Fall and Holiday book list, as well
as all the other great gift items Barnes & Noble has to offer, at any of
Barnes & Noble's nearly 700 stores nationwide or online at www.bn.com.
Digital versions of all books are also available on the award-winning
NOOK line of eReaders and Tablets (www.nook.com).

And for even greater value, customers are invited to join the Barnes &
Noble Member program. Designed for Barnes & Noble's most loyal
customers, the Barnes & Noble Membership program gives Members 40% off
all hardcover bestsellers and 10% off virtually everything else in
Barnes & Noble stores throughout the year. Members also benefit from
free express shipping on all online purchases at BN.com and receive
exclusive savings offers throughout the year. The annual fee is only $25.

About Barnes & Noble, Inc.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS) is a Fortune 500 company and the leading
retailer of content, digital media and educational products. The company
operates 674 Barnes & Noble bookstores in 50 states, and one of the
Web's largest e-commerce sites, BN.com (www.bn.com).
Its NOOK Media LLC subsidiary is a leader in the emerging digital
reading and digital education markets. The NOOK digital business offers
award-winning NOOK® products and an expansive collection of digital
reading and entertainment content through the NOOK Store® (www.nook.com),
while Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC operates 692 bookstores
serving over 4.6 million students and faculty members at colleges and
universities across the United States. Barnes & Noble is proud to be
named a J.D. Power and Associates 2012 Customer Service Champion and is
only one of 50 U.S. companies so named. Barnes & Noble.com is ranked the
number one online retailer in customer satisfaction in the book, music
and video category and a Top 10 online retailer overall in customer
satisfaction according to ForeSee E-Retail Satisfaction Index (Spring
Top 100 Edition).

General information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the
Internet by visiting the company's corporate website: www.barnesandnobleinc.com.

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